This text is a critical study focusing on the development of Polish poetry during the forty years following the 1863 uprising.
The volume analyzes Polish poetry from the period following the January Uprising, bridging the eras of Positivism and Young Poland through the works of figures such as Adam Asnyk, Maria Konopnicka, and Jan Kasprowicz.
It was published by the well-known Polish publishing house Gebethner & Co.
Dr. Tadeusz Grabowski (1871–1960), an eminent professor and historian of Polish literature.



